Construction for closed vehicles



Jane 12, 1932 M. ZIRMER I 1,840,761

CONSTRUCTION FOR CLOSED VEHICLES Filed Jan. 12, 1929 2 Sheets-Spam 1 Filed Jan. 12, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR ATTORNEY an angle sufficient to throw the Patented Jan. 12, 1 932 MARTIN 211mm, or PORTLAND, onnoon CONSTRUCTION FOB CLOSED VEHICLES Application filed January 12, 1929. Serial No. 332,127.

My invention relates to closed body construction for automotive vehicles, as automoe.

biles, automobile trucks, motor boats, and the like and has for its object the breaking of the glare of the approaching vehicle by the placing of the front glass, or wind shield glass at glare of the approaching headlight out of vision of the driver through refraction within the glass. The wind shield glass being inclined rearwardly at an angle. accomplished is to limit the size of the corner posts in the door created by the inclination, by moving the window glass disposed Within the door horizontally as well as vertically during the raising and lowering operation.

Theprimary purpose of my invention is to limit the glare of the approaching headlight and to limit the size of the corner post construction of the automobile body.

A further object of my invention resides in a simplified construction that makesposthe invention consists in certain novel fea in full lowered position.

sible the moving of the window glass horizontally and vertically during the raising and lowering operation.

A further object of my invention resides in a simplified construction having a minimum first cost and arranged to give a minimum operating annoyance over a relatively" lon operating perlod.

ith these and incidental ob ects-in view,

tures of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in the appended claim, and a preferred form'of embodiment of which is here inafter shown with reference to the drawings which accompany and form a. part of this specification. 1 y

. Fig. 1 is a side view of a motor vehicle utilizing my form of construction.

Fig.2 is a fragmentary, sectional, side view of a vehicle door illustrating the window in full raised position. Y

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal, sectional, side view of a vehicle door illustrating'the window glass Fig. lisa fragmentary, sectional, side view of. the vehiclebody wind shield section, and

' struction,

A further object to be 6 is disposed illustrating the window in a partially raised position. Y I

Fig. 5 is a sectional view, taken online 5 -5 of Fig. 4, looking in the direction indicated,

the same being made to illustrate the corner post construction and the door frame conshowing the felt lining disposed within the guideways of the door frame.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

1 is the automotive body, havin a wind shield 2 disposing at an angle su cient to break the glare of the approaching headlight and the same is made of relatively heavy plate glass, the refraction caused by the light rays passing through vthe wind shield glass throws the light rays abovethe vision of the driver of the motor vehicle. has not been possible, due to the inclination increasing the size of the corner post 3 of the motor vehicle.

In my new and improved construction, I incline the front upper wall of the door 4, at an angle substantially that of the wind shield and place a glass 5 within the door having the upper portion 6 of the front edge inclined at the angle of inclination of the upper door frame bifurcated guideway? and having the lower portion 8 of the front edge of the window glass substantially vertical so that when.

form the upper rear portion of the glass 10 substantially vertical and form the lower portion 11 of the rear edge of the glass at an angle also substantiall that of the upper rearwardly inclined bi urcated guideway 12 of the door frame. The glass is raised and lowered in the usual mannerb a chain 13 by suitable operating cranks "disposed upon the inner side of the door.

As'the glass 5 is raised the inclined surface onthe forward edge of the glass contacts with the inner wall of the bifurcated guideway 7 of the door frame and causes the glass'to be shifted rearwardly. To prevent the rattling of the glass, a spring 7A is disposed upon the inner surface-of the bifurcated guideway 7 and'as the sloping surface Heretofore this i of the glass cont'actswith the spring 7A, the frame, and a window pane shaped substansame is repressed until the spring will occupy tially like the inner portion of the door frame the position, as illustrated in Fig. 2. In the and adapted to ride within the channel by lowering of the window glass, the inner wall the actuation of driving means. of the guideways'7 and 12 of the door frame MARTIN ZIRMER. 70

contact with the sloping surfaces 6 and of the glass and move the same horizontally, simultaneously with the lowering and raising operation until the vertical wall 8 ofthe 10 glass contactswith the inner vertical wall of the bifurcated guideway 9 of the door and the vertical wall 10 of the glasscontacts with the inner vertical wall of the bifurcated guideway of the door frame, thereby lowering the 15 glass vertically in the final lowering opera- 89 tion. The precision fits between the glass and the guideways of the door frame, prevents rat-- tling during the lowering operation after the glass has been partially lowered and the precision fit between the glass and the guideways 5 when the glass is totally raised, prevents,. rattling, the spring 7 A preventing rattling dliring the period of the glass being partially raised. The movement of the glass horizontally to compensate for the inclination of the forward wall of the door frame, reduces the front corner post of the door frame to a minimum in size. A suitable felt lining 16 may be placedwithin the bifurcated guide- 30 ways of the door frame to prevent annoving rattles in the customary manner. The c ain 13 carries-an outwardly projecting pin 17. The enga ment block 18 is secured to the lower sur ace of the glass and the pin 17 35 actuates within the slot 19 disposed within t the block 18 and as the glass is raised and 1 lowered within the guideways of the frame, the length of the slot 19 should be sufficient to compensate for the horizontal movement 4 of the lass. a '105- Whi e the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the ob'ects primarily stated, it is to'be understoo that it is not intended to confine. 45 the invention to the one form of embodiment Y herein shown in various forms, all coming within the scope of the claim which follows:

WhatIclaimis: Ina device of the class described, in com- 5, bination, a door frame, said door flame having its upper front edge inclined atan angle substantially that of the windshield frame, its lower front edge vertical, its rear edge s parallelto the lower front edge, a' bifurcated cha'n n;el disposed within the inner portion of I a the door frame, said inner portion of the Y door frame-and channel following the con-- tourof the front'edge and top of the door so frame, the inner rear portion of; the door frame being shaped in zig-zag form being first vertical, 'then inclined at an angleequal to that'of-the front edge of the frame then again verticahand then hgain inclined at an' v angle equal to that of the front edgeof the 

